Ridgecrest Police Chief Ron Strand said the Kern County District Attorney’s Office will review the death of 56-year-old Jim Hill.

Kern County Sheriff-Coroner Donny Youngblood ruled the death a homicide last month.

Hill died June 8 in the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Emergency Room.

An autopsy was completed June 11, and the cause of death was determined to be a massive acute subarachnoid hemorrhage, bleeding arteriovenous malformation, right middle cerebral artery with a contributing cause of methamphetamine intoxication.

“It’s still a homicide, and it just depends on what the District Attorney’s Office deems the culpability of the person who was engaged in the altercation with Mr. Hill,” Strand said. “It’s being sent off to the District Attorney’s Office for review, and they will be able to determine what charges, if any, to file.”

Hill reportedly went to retrieve his bicycle from a residence on West Upjohn Avenue and got into a physical altercation just before his death.